Violette Lebrun

Violette Lebrun advises clients on a range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, and private equity transactions. She also has experience advising on restructurings and joint ventures. She has represented clients in a variety of industries, including life sciences, telecommunications, retail, consumer goods, and banking and insurance.

Prior to joining Jones Day in 2025, Violette advised one of the leading private equity firms on the acquisition of the leader in the Belgian gaming and betting market, both land-based and online, with a presence in nine countries around the world; Athora Belgium, the Belgian life insurer focused on pension and investment savings, on the acquisition (in the framework of a controlled auction run by ING) of a Belgian run-off life portfolio being sold by NN, representing assets under management of about €3.3 billion; the management of a Brussels-based international events company on the acquisition of a majority stake in the group by two private equity players; and Louis Delhaize Group, a French-Belgian retailer, on the sale of the majority of its Match/Smatch stores to Colruyt Group, together with a number of related transactions, on the sale of its Delitraiteur activities to Colruyt Group, and on the sale of its Louis Delhaize convenience stores operated by Delfood SA to Delhaize Le Lion/De Leeuw NV. She also recently served a 10-month secondment with the M&A legal team at BNP Paribas in Paris.